Candidate eligibility and posts and positions impeding membership of theEuropean Parliament

The provisions on candidate eligibility in parliamentary elections apply to the candidate eligibility of Finnish citizens in elections to the European Parliament. A citizen of another Member State of the European Union who is entitled to vote in Finland is eligible to stand as a candidate in the elections to the European Parliament in Finland, unless he or she has lost his or her candidate eligibility in the elections to the European Parliament in his or her home state.

A Member of the European Parliament cannot be:

1)  a member of the Government;

2)  a member of the European Commission;

3)  a Judge, Advocate-General or Registrar of the Court of Justice of the European Communities or of the Court of First Instance;

4)  a member of the executive board of the European Central Bank;

5)  a member of the European Court of Auditors;

6)  the European Ombudsman;

7)  a member of the Economic and Social Committee of the European Communities or of the European Atomic Energy Community;

8)  a member of the Committee of Regions;

9)  a member of a committee or another body responsible for the financial administration or a permanent administrative function of the Community, appointed by virtue of the founding treaties of the European Community and the European Atomic Energy Community;

10)  a member of the Board of Directors or Board of Governors of the European Investment Bank or a member of staff of the European InvestmentBank; a public official or a clerical worker employed by a body of the European Communities or by a special body connected to such or by the European Central Bank;

11)  a person who is in such a post or position that he or she under the Constitution cannot be a Member of Parliament.

(868/2003)

If a person elected a Member of the European Parliament from Finland loses his or her candidate eligibility or is appointed or selected for a post or position referred to in subsection 2, his or her membership in the European Parliament is terminated.